I mentioned at the Annual Village Meeting that this application had been successfully defeated but we needed to keep a close eye if it came back. At the very time I was preparing for the meeting I was also receiving an email (which I didn’t pick up until later that evening) from Maidstone BC for a new application.
The new application ((19/500736/FULL) is for the ‘Erection of a poultry shed and associated storage barn with mobile home for the establishment of an organic egg enterprise’ is in much the same area off Park Lane. However, it appears to be very much larger than the original application (6,000 rather than 2,000 hens) and so the original concerns with matters such as vermin and heavy lorries down the road to Wormshill and then Park Lane will be even worse.
If you wish to make comments on the application, you have until 5pm on Tuesday 16th April to make them. If you commented previously, please review your letter in view of the changes in the new plan in case you need to update your comments.
Patrik Garten, our MBC Ward councillor has said he has already called the application for decision by the Planning Committee rather than being decided under delegated powers by Council Officers.